In article <47E1BC4C.7000507 at karan.org>, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > Tony Mountifield wrote: > > Is there any way, when installing CentOS (or any RH-based distro), > > to prevent it from using disk labels in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf, > > and to force it to just use the actual device names? > > I dont think there is any sane way, in either the C4 or C5 installers. > If you do find a way to do that, let me know. > > There is presently a conversation going on with the anaconda developers > about dropping labelling completely, but that might be a long time > before we see that in EL / CentOS released distros OK, thanks for the info. > > For testing purposes, I am installing two different CentOS versions in > > different partitions, and am having to change from labels to device names > > by hand, and re-label the disks, in order to avoid the boot process getting > > confused between the filesystems. > > you could always just change fstab, perhaps a sneaky script in %post of > the kickstart to do the hard work for you ? Yes, for now I am just editing fstab and grub.conf by hand, but it might be possible to automate it somehow in a script, using e2label to find the correct device names. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org